Little by little, Michel Barnier’s government is revealing its roadmap on social matters. If confirmed, several intentions shown by the new team in power would crumble part of the projects of the previous prime minister, Gabriel Attal. Latest example: the specific solidarity subsidy (ASS), whose elimination was announced at the end of January. This benefit, granted – under certain conditions – to job seekers who have exhausted their rights to unemployment insurance, will ultimately be maintained.
It was Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, Minister of Labor, who revealed this arbitration. In a daily interview Western France dated from Saturday, October 5 to Sunday, October 6, explains having ” got “ that this social minimum “classify (…) of all budget debates and that [le] do not delete as is ». The disappearance of this subsidy was part of the decisions presented on January 30 by Attal during his general policy speech before the National Assembly. The then head of government explained that the ASS would be changed to the Active Solidarity Income (RSA), that is, it would be replaced by it. An election strongly criticized because it could penalize people in very precarious circumstances.
However, a few days before the European elections on June 9, the executive had given the impression of doubting the application of the measure, Catherine Vautrin, then Minister of Labor, indicating that it was not “It is not immediate news”. The voluntary sector, which helps those most in need, saw this as the beginning of a resignation. Today the abandonment of the project seems to have been confirmed.
No new framework letter
Another reform promoted by Attal also seems buried: that of unemployment insurance, which was to tighten the rules applicable to job seekers through a decree suspended since June. In his interview with Western France,METROme Panosyan-Bouvet confirms the wish, already expressed by Mr. Barnier, to “return control to the social partners” on this issue, which means concretely that workers’ and employers’ organizations will reopen negotiations on the unemployment compensation system. The discussion between the protagonists will be based on the agreement signed in November 2023 between the employers’ association and three unions (CFDT, CFTC, FO), but which the executive finally refused to validate.
wishing “give the maximum possibilities for social dialogue to work”,METROme Panosyan-Bouvet specifies that there will be no new Matignon framework charter that imposes objectives on the representatives of workers and companies. but this “It does not prohibit the State and the social partners from communicating, quite the opposite! »he adds, as if to underline the change in method advocated by the government, thus breaking with seven years of Macronism during which there were many tensions with intermediary organizations.
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